Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

When I was in college, I had a fear of cancer.

Everyone gets scared from time to time. It's totally normal, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape.

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.

It's so weird to have someone tell you you're sick when you feel really healthy and good.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.